Comedy
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: The fish. Much like that joke, comedy comes down to personal taste and what one finds funny or not. Some like their humour light and frothy and very generalised, while others like it to have an edge and go for a more twisted, darker humour. The motherlode of this genre can be scrolled below. Either way, we're sure there will be something for everybody in the subsections on the left.
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Please Don't Eat The Daisies (1960)
6.5/10
Director: Charles Walters
Starring: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Page, Jack Weston
A drama critic (David Niven) and his wife (Doris Day) pack up their brood and move from New York to a dilapidated old house in the country and a new s... Read more
Please Give (2010)
6.6/10
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Starring: Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet, Ann Guilbert, Sarah S...
Kate and Alex (Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt) own a successful Manhattan furniture store, reselling mid-century modern treasures purchased from th... Read more
Please Please Me! (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Emmanuel Mouret
Starring: Judith Godreche, Emmanuel Mouret, Deborah Francois, Frederique Bel
Aka "Fais-moi Plaisir!" Ariane (Frederique Bel) is convinced that her partner, Jean-Jacques (Emmanuel Mouret), is fantasizing about another woman. To... Read more
Please Stand By (2017)
6.8/10
Director: Ben Lewin
Starring: Toni Collette, Dakota Fanning, Patton Oswalt, Alice Eve, Michael Stahl-David, Ri...
Wendy sees things differently: she's fiercely independent, with a brilliant mind and a mischievous sense of hilarity. Wendy also has autism. To her, p... Read more
Pluto Nash (2002)
3.8/10
Director: Ron Underwood
Starring: Rosario Dawson, Randy Quaid, Peter Boyle, Pam Grier, John Cleese, Eddie Murphy
Aka "The Adventures of Pluto Nash". Futuristic fun is in store in the year 2080, as ex-smuggler Eddie Murphy is approached by a seedy businessman to b... Read more
Poker Alice (1987)
6.3/10
Director: Arthur Seidelman
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Skerritt, George Hamilton, Susan Tyrrell
This Wild West comedy stars Elizabeth Taylor as a New Orleans gambling queen who becomes a business woman of questionable ethics when she wins a front... Read more
Police Academy (1984)
6.7/10
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, George Gaynes
"Police Academy" salutes the men, women and borderline cases who protect the public from people very much like themselves. A comic success story for o... Read more
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
5.7/10
Director: Jerry Paris
Starring: Colleen Camp, David Graf, Steve Guttenberg, Bruce Mahler, Marion Ramsey, Bubba S...
The new recruits are let loose on an unsuspecting public, now fully-fledged law enforcers and equally as clueless as they were back at the academy. T... Read more
Police Academy 3. Back In Training (1986)
6.7/10
Director: Jerry Paris
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, George Gaynes
The alumni of Commandant Lassard's Police Academy (1984) return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure. Read more
Police Academy 4: Citizen On Patrol (1987)
7.6/10
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith, George Gaynes
The misfit Police Academy (1984) graduates now are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets. Read more